In an unknown space, Li Mu encountered a series of bizarre events.

Meanwhile, Lin Hongluan, who was inside the Little Snow Mountain, had just woken up. This was the longest she had ever slept in a night.

I slept for about two hours.

She didn't know when it started, but her mind calmed down.

She no longer felt worried or afraid for Li Mu, and even felt at ease.

Perhaps it was after the glove brought the little golden bead into the pocket.

However, she was unaware that a small golden bead had appeared in her pocket.

After getting out of her sleeping bag, she discovered that the mouthwash she had brought had frozen into ice and was unusable.

After eating something, she prepared to dig through the snow cave to return to the hotel.

Regarding her visit to Li Mu, she felt she had done everything she could, and Li Mu's fate was now in the hands of destiny.

Soon, she discovered that the entrenching tool she had placed on the ground was frozen solid, and so were other items placed against the snowdrift.

After she painstakingly pulled out all the frozen items, she discovered the problem was even more serious.

The snow that had been dug out earlier has now frozen solid, making it impossible to dig with a shovel.

Lin Hongluan dared not delay any longer and had to find a way out as soon as possible. If she couldn't get out, this place would become her own grave.

What she didn't know was that something even more serious was waiting for her.

Heavy snow was falling outside Little Snow Mountain, and the pores she had left behind were about to be sealed off.

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Although Lin Hongluan was somewhat flustered at this moment, she did not lose her composure.

Unable to use an entrenching tool, she had to use an ice axe to break up the frozen snow and then shovel it away.

After some hammering and banging, she dug half a meter outward from the snow cave, but still needed to dig about another meter to complete the tunnel.

Moreover, it gets harder to dig as you go further out; the ice axe sparks when it hits the frozen snow.

Even more seriously, due to the great physical exertion, she felt some shortness of breath and had to stop and rest for a while.

Sitting on the backpack, Lin Hongluan was unaware that the air vents of Little Snow Mountain had been sealed.

The snow-covered hill had lost its air circulation and was beginning to lack oxygen.

She took off her frostbite gloves, brushed off the remaining snow and ice, and then put her hands in her pockets to keep them warm.

She inadvertently touched the small gold bead in her pocket, and was quite puzzled when she took the tiny bead out of her pocket.

Looking at the small beads in her palm, her flustered emotions calmed down again.

She had never seen this tiny bead before and had no idea how it could be in her pocket.

After sitting on her backpack and staring blankly at the little golden pearl for a while, Lin Hongluan felt the cold again.

Moreover, the feeling of shortness of breath did not improve with rest, and she no longer had the strength to dig any further.

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Li Mu stayed at that large iron pot for about ten days before walking away again.

Soon, they saw an axe without a handle.

When I saw this axe, I had a sense of familiarity.

A moment later, Li Mu looked around and observed his surroundings, then suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

Apart from the axe, the surrounding environment was very similar to his previous dream.

Am I dreaming? Or am I currently inside the golden pearl?

These two self-questions made Li Mu fall into deep thought.

Li Mu mentally recalled all the strange and unusual things he had encountered in the past few days.

'A small puddle, a rolling pin, a muddy mess, a large iron pot, and now a golden axe.'

Does this represent the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth? The thought startled Li Mu himself.

Thinking of this, Li Mu immediately used his divine sense to sense the small golden bead, and sure enough, the bead was gone.

If that's the case, he can be certain that he is currently inside the Golden Pearl.

Moreover, he was certain that this was an abandoned Five Elements world, a world whose rules were incomplete and lacked vitality.

After figuring this out, Li Mu did not cultivate on the ground as before, but walked towards the axe.

He had a hunch that he might be unable to get close to this axe, just like before, but if he kept going, he should be able to encounter an opportunity.

Li Mu walked towards the golden axe for about a whole day, but the distance between him and the axe remained unchanged.

And the opportunities he had intuitively sensed he might encounter had not materialized at all.

Just as he began to doubt his intuition, he inexplicably saw some words appear next to the golden axe.

He desperately wanted to see the words clearly, which he believed was the result of his intuition, but the words were too small for him to read.

To see the words clearly, Li Mu had to keep walking, and this took another two days.

When he finally saw the words clearly, he was extremely disappointed. The words described a very ordinary cultivation technique called "Longevity Manual".

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Li Mu thought the technique was ordinary because it was too simple.

"The so-called thing that those who cultivate the Tao do is to achieve longevity."

However, immortality is something that cannot be sought.

The path of cultivating the Tao should not be abandoned, though the path is long and arduous, and its cultivation is a long and arduous journey.

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After seeing the description of the technique and the cultivation diagrams next to it, he completely lost interest in it.

The cultivation method is too simple, and it only provides the cultivation method for the Qi Refining stage without any subsequent stages. What use is such a cultivation method?

Then, Li Mu began to think about how to get out of the bead.

He realized that the bead had not been refined; this time, the bead had taken the initiative to save him and bring him into this world.

If he can't get out, and there's no spiritual energy here, he might starve or die of old age in this abandoned world.

Looking again at the cultivation technique next to the axe, he began to wonder if he had to cultivate this technique, which was only for those at the Qi Refining stage, in order to get out.

After careful consideration, he concluded that the only way out was to cultivate the Longevity Technique.

However, when he tried to begin his cultivation, he encountered a problem and was unable to cultivate.

He had a feeling that only by giving up his original cultivation level could he begin to cultivate this technique.

The problem now is that Li Mu must choose whether to give up the cultivation he has worked so hard to achieve in order to cultivate the Longevity Technique.

But he knew that only by cultivating the Longevity Technique could he possibly escape.

This is a major decision that requires his careful consideration.

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After an hour of contemplation, Li Mu resolutely abandoned his cultivation.

With his cultivation abolished, the little spiritual energy he had left completely dissipated from his body and quickly merged into this world.

Then, Li Mu sensed some life in this abandoned world, and the foggy environment became clearer.

At this moment, Li Mu didn't know whether to be happy or regretful.

The good news is that there is a possibility that this world can be repaired by myself, but the bad news is that the spiritual energy I have managed to preserve has completely dissipated.

It's probably unlikely that we can absorb the spiritual energy back from here.

Fortunately, Li Mu only lost his cultivation level; his divine sense remained, and it was equivalent to the divine sense of the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Li Mu used his divine sense to open the ring and took out all the remaining thirty-odd spirit stones.

After Li Mu began cultivating this Longevity Technique, his spirit stones were consumed very quickly; in just one hour, he used up more than twenty.

His cultivation level was only at the peak of the first level of Qi Refining.

After he broke through to the second level of Qi Refining, the cultivation method for the second level of Qi Refining automatically appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Ah!" Li Mu was quite taken aback.

It turns out that this seemingly simple cultivation technique is actually an automatically generated technique.

Before I started practicing, I had no idea how it was going to work. It seems that this cultivation method really is my destiny.

After all the spirit stones were used up, Li Mu's cultivation level remained at the mid-stage of the second level of Qi Refining.